Motion, transfer and transformation the grammar of change in lowland Chontal - O'Connor, Loretta (John Benjamins Pub., 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index
Motion, Transfer and Transformation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations and conventions.; 1. Introduction; 2. GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF LOWLAND CHONTAL; 3. SIMPLE PREDICATES OF CHANGE; 4. COMPLEX PREDICATES OF ASSOCIATED MOTION AND ASSOCIATED CHANGE; 5. COMPLEX PREDICATES OF ASSOCIATED DIRECTION AND TOPOLOGICAL RELATION; 6. CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX: Compound stem verbs, by construction type; REFERENCES; INDEX; The series Studies in Language Companion Series
Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types of predicates, and each predicate type corresponds to a different language type in the well-known typology of lexicalization patterns established by Talmy and elaborated by others. O'Connor evaluates the predictive powers of the typology by examining the consequences of each predicate type in a vari